The Deed
The mother of Derek is named Lorraine Whitfield, a retired county clerk who has read more deeds in her life than most people have read novels, and she did not …
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The Note Holder
The father of Stacy is named Gordon Pruett, a retired schoolteacher, and he held the letter at arm length, reading the name at the bottom twice, three times, the way …
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The mother of Austin is named Colleen Fairbanks, a brisk, handsome woman who had spent thirty years as a buyer for a department store chain, and she was not a …
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The casino executive is named Victor Lanzetta, a lean, silver haired man of sixty who runs a resort on the Truckee River, and he did not wait for me to …
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The father of the girlfriend is named Dale Rutherford, a thick, easy going man in a Western shirt, and he stood in the middle of the restaurant holding my paper. …
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The father of Lauren is named Richard Pruitt, a heavy, kind faced man who owns three car washes in Gulf Breeze, and he held the paper in both hands as …
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Charles Whitaker pulled out a chair at his own table, the best one, beside the window, and he held it for me. I sat. I could feel every eye in …
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Walter Lindgren did not answer his granddaughter at once. He looked at the pearls on her neck, three strands, with a gold clasp, and then he looked at me, and …
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I shifted the stack of valet tickets from one hand to the other and took the congresswoman by the elbow, because the rain was coming down hard and she was …
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Ryan opened his mouth, and for a long time nothing came out of it. The jazz trio had drifted into a slow, apologetic version of an old standard, and a …
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